September 2018

Across the Pacific Northwest there is an ordinary revival brewing. Churches are moving from: Fragmented Isolation TO Neighborhood Presence Religious Consumerism TO Collaborative Participation Unrecognized Privilege TO Equitable Inclusion A Scarcity Lens TO Abundant Ecology Toxic Charity TO Community Caring On September 7-8, we will gather in Spokane to celebrate what God is already doing in our midst and to plot towards what is possible. We will reignite our communal imagination towards God’s work in our neighborhoods and nurture the…

https://vimeo.com/259028884 United Methodists in the Alaska, Oregon-Idaho and Pacific Northwest Conferences are being encouraged to participate in Table Talk conversations being planned in various settings across the Greater Northwest Area. These opportunities will provide attendees a way to engage the church’s current discussion of human sexuality and the report of the Commission on a Way Forward within a structure of worship and respect for one another. Our Table Talk at Wenatchee First UMC will start at 9am and finish at…

Across the Pacific Northwest there is an ordinary revival brewing. Churches are moving from: Fragmented Isolation TO Neighborhood Presence Religious Consumerism TO Collaborative Participation Unrecognized Privilege TO Equitable Inclusion A Scarcity Lens TO Abundant Ecology Toxic Charity TO Community Caring On September 21-22, we will gather in Seattle to celebrate what God is already doing in our midst and to plot towards what is possible. We will reignite our communal imagination towards God’s work in our neighborhoods and nurture the…

October 2018

What does it mean to be a Deacon, an Elder, a Licensed Local Pastor, a Certified Lay Minister or Lay Person Assigned? How do these offices within the church strengthen the church as a whole? How do they provide people a variety of ways to offer themselves vocationally for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? How do we understand these as identities and not only, or even primarily, job descriptions? How has each of our responses to God’s claim on…